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complainants

noun

plural of complainant

as in plaintiffs

the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another the complainant charged that the defendant had broken the ironclad contract that both had signed

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Recent Examples of complainants Morgan has said previously that the other complainants were from players who were out of the team and had a grudge or issue with him. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 29 June 2026 Two of the claimants were complainants who gave evidence during Spacey's 2023 criminal trial in London, where the now 66-year-old actor was acquitted of all charges. — Reuters, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026 Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found Stronach guilty on Friday on two charges related to two complainants. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 The move comes after policies were earlier introduced by Meta that complainants say may unfairly prevent rival AI providers from offering their business services through WhatsApp. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 The statement said that per the state Government Data Practices Act, the existence and status of the complaints are public, but complainants’ names, the nature of the complaints and other related information are not. — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026 Cleveland Horton, executive director of the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, spearheaded the bill that would have created a private right of action and given his office the authority to seek punitive damages on behalf of complainants. — Delano Squires, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026 At the same time, the Commission recently published a Fair Chance Hiring Intake Form that asks complainants whether the employer provided such information when notifying them of an intent to rescind a job offer or take other adverse action. — Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 The business’s behaviors, as described by the numerous complainants, violate the Michigan Consumer Protection Act (MCPA), according to Nessel. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026

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plaintiffs

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In April, after another trial, a jury in Chicago ordered Abbott to pay four plaintiffs a total of $70 million.

— David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
The upshot is that plaintiffs can’t sue the biotech company for not putting a cancer warning on the label of Roundup, the popular weed killer.

— Zachary Karabell, Washington Post, 1 July 2026

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